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- Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War, from roughly 1865 to 1877, during which attempts were made to implement full freedom and constitutional rights for African Americans following emancipation and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
Oct 29, 2009 · Reconstruction, the turbulent era following the U.S. Civil War, was an effort to reunify the divided nation, address and integrate African Americans into society by rewriting the nation's laws...
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Jul 16, 2024 · The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
Oct 1, 2020 · Widely enacted throughout the South following the Civil War—a period called Reconstruction—these laws both limited the rights of Black people and exploited them as a labor source.
- Nadra Kareem Nittle
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Feb 8, 2021 · Reconstruction offered a glimpse of equality for Black Americans. Why did it fail? During the Reconstruction era, the U.S. abolished slavery and guaranteed Black men the right to vote.
Feb 3, 2021 · For a 14-year period following the Civil War, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population.
- Farrell Evans
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The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
